Sometimes I feel like holidays abroad are a lot of bother.
Now I'm older, it seems like hard work.

We did plan a drive through Europe and down through Italy and back this year but COVID pay to that. To be honest, I have as much a feeling of trepidation as I do enthusiasm about holidays like that now.
You have to do this stuff because you are a long time dead, but a nice, cosy stay in Cornwall seems like quite a pleasant alternative. As long as I don't bump into Wisbech.

I am the opposite as the older I get the more time I have to organize an overseas holiday, not that I find it takes much planning.

In non covid times I don't really find it much of a hassle either. research and book villa, buy flights and rent car.

I must admit that there is more hassle this year with all these wretched covid tests that you have to take which are also a bit of a con.

We came back from Kefalonia a week and had to have antigen tests before we returned which was 165 euros for the three of us plus PCR tests within two days of our return which was a further £120.

We are off to Lanzarote in four weeks so that's probably another large lump for tests unless Boris scraps them before we go

It's not the organisation, it's the physical rigours of travelling and all the usual holiday bothers.
There was a time when driving for hundreds of miles or doing long haul was fine, but now it just seems like a lot of discomfort and stress.

Maybe I will regain some enthusiasm when we hit the foreign holiday trail again.

I love the UK. Honeymooned on the Isle of Skye, love Scotland and Wales especially, and have got into caravanning for weekends away, but equally I really miss hot weather, cheap beer/food and crucially the feel of being in a different culture.

I love learning the lingo, soaking up the atmosphere and finding new places. As nice as places in the UK are, to me it's just not the same holiday experience by a long shot.

It annoys me that the term "staycation" - which used to mean having time off work but not actually going anywhere ("I'm going to Stopathome on holiday" etc etc) - has now come to mean taking a holiday in the United Kingdom, and it's often used in a somewhat derogatory way, belittling those who choose not to holiday abroad.

In my household the term for taking a holiday in the UK has always been: "holiday".

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Yet I feel holidays in this country is more bother. I love the all inclusive where you get picked up from the airport and taken to your destination. Not having to bother with buying food/drinks as well and then the excursions to other parts of the country you are staying in. Plus you get the sun :-) It seems holidays in this country requires you to drive distances and makes more hassle/tiredness? Happy to do both types of holidays but those abroad seem easier to this old geezer :-)